Kevin

@CaptainEmacs Well, in an interview environment, you can get into a pedantic argument about the definition of the word "conflict" or you can answer the question they asked in a way that provides the information you know they're looking for. I'll let you decide which action is most likely to get the result you're looking for

Kevin

May 19, 2021 12:49

@CaptainEmacs A difference of opinions IS a conflict. Your opinion conflicts with theirs. So, answering the interview question for you would sound something like "I try to keep disagreements out of the emotional territory and focus on the facts at hand. By doing so, I've managed to avoid any major conflicts with my supervisors. For example, when I disagreed with my current supervisor last week about X..."

Kevin

May 19, 2021 12:49

@CaptainEmacs I'm actually a very agreeable person and get along quite nicely with almost everyone. However, there's no way you can never have conflict unless you have no opinion of your own

Kevin

May 19, 2021 12:49

You've NEVER had a conflict with a supervisor?? I find that incredibly hard to believe unless you've never had a supervisor. Are you honestly saying that you've always agreed 100% with every single thing every supervisor you've ever had has ever said?

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Kevin

May 12, 2021 15:19

@thieupepijn It's not just about them actively sabotaging. There's them doing shoddy work that someone else has to end up redoing and may cause issues for your customers. There's the awkwardness of working together while they're a "dead man walking" for them and their coworkers. Overall, it's just not worth it. Plus, it allows them more time to job hunt and go on interviews

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Kevin

Apr 23, 2021 16:50

@DavidBlomstrom My initial reaction to your "common strategy" was disbelief. I figured it was vastly overblown in movies and TV. After some research, it appears that it was, in fact, more common than I would have thought. There were over 800 documented cases in the Army and Marines during Vietnam, and likely more that weren't documented as such.

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Kevin

Mar 26, 2021 13:20

@JoeStrazzere I'm in the U.S. I've seen dentists with lunch time hours, but enver at night or on weekends

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Kevin

Mar 11, 2021 15:37

I agree with most of this, except for #1. I'm a software engineer and this sounds like some sort of "standup" meeting. There's nothing wrong with bringing up an issue you're having with your code in this type of meeting and asking for help from someone who you think can help you. HOW she did that, as you said, needs improvement

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Kevin

Oct 7, 2020 02:51

Fantastic answer. It won't let me do a 1 character edit to fix "factcories"

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Kevin

Sep 23, 2020 14:53

@A.bakker Lol, the Dread Pirate Roberts finally gets busted, but not for piracy, but possession of an illegal substance. That would be like Capone getting taken down for tax evasion.

Kevin

Sep 23, 2020 14:53

@A.bakker I'm not a lawyer, and certainly not an international legal expert, but I hope the number of countries where you are not allowed to use violence, if necessary, to save someone from kidnapping and murder are very few.

Kevin

Sep 23, 2020 14:53

@A.bakker seeing as Vizzini was in the process of kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder and the Dread Pirate Roberts did it to save Buttercup, it would most likely be neither murder nor negligent homicide, but justifiable homicide

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Kevin

Aug 3, 2020 04:15

@jsonp Also, it's entirely possible that your Mandarin is not quite as good as you think it is. I went to the Defense Language Institute and studied Japanese eight hours a day, five days a week, for a year and a half. I was then stationed in Japan. Japanese people frequently told me my Japanese was "very good". Imagine my disenchantment when I heard someone who had just arrived in Japan, with no knowledge of Japanese, butcher a "Hello" and be told their Japanese was "very good"

Kevin

Aug 3, 2020 04:15

@jsonp No, they are not dictating anything to you. You are free to speak the language you feel most comfortable in, and so are they. From your post, it sounds like there are plenty of other people at work that are willing to speak to you in Mandarin. Why are you making such a big deal about a few people? And going to HR over it? That's crazy and a great way to make people dislike you.

Kevin

Aug 3, 2020 04:15

@Jontia Yeah, I was thinking the same thing

Kevin

Aug 3, 2020 04:15

@Acccumulation Just as it is not OP's job to teach them English, it's not their job to teach him Chinese. Why should his desire for them to speak in Chinese be more important than their desire for him to speak English.

Kevin

Aug 3, 2020 04:15

@joe "this answer being given to a transgender person asking about getting others to use their preferred pronoun." That would be covered under the "being rude" part of my answer

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Kevin

Jun 23, 2020 03:28

TLDR; It's all in the lips, baby

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Kevin

Jun 17, 2020 07:44

Yeah, you could easily feed 2-3 people for that much money

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Kevin

Jun 11, 2020 18:37

@epa095 I agree. Some people don't seem to get that though. Your salary is going to be somewhere between the minimum you are willing to work for (or the minimum required by law) and the value they think you bring to the company. Any other expectation is just silly

Kevin

Jun 11, 2020 18:37

@luator US gets a bad rap (sometimes deservedly) for employee protections, but it is actually illegal in the US for an employer to prevent you from discussing your salary

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Kevin

Apr 24, 2020 17:47

@Frank Experiences vary, but in the companies in the US, HR covers lots of things and deals with employee benefits, equal opportunity, etc. I've actually had fairly good interactions with HR in most of the companies I've worked for. Which include everything from small (<100 employee companies) to billion dollar companies with thousands of employees

Kevin

Apr 24, 2020 16:50

@Frank Having an HR Dept is a red flag? Ooookay

Kevin

Apr 24, 2020 16:50

@TymoteuszPaul Not everyone has the same comfort level or standards for dealing with things. Some prefer to avoid confrontation, some prefer to deal with things as close to home as possible. Personally, unless I really hated the company I was working for, reporting something like this to legal authorities without trying to resolve it internally first is not something I would likely do

Kevin

Apr 24, 2020 16:50

@TymoteuszPaul Added an option to skip trying to deal with it internally and just report it to authorities

Kevin

Apr 24, 2020 16:50

@TymoteuszPaul Did you not see the part where I called it theft and said report it to legal authorities

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Kevin

Mar 26, 2020 19:21

This is an age old problem across all of humanity, I don't know that there is an easy fix. The janitor who comes out and mops up a spill gets little (or more likely NO) recognition. The doctor who happens to be in the store and saves the customers life after they slip in a puddle and crack their head open is treated as a hero.

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Kevin

Mar 8, 2020 20:33

From your description, I think it is perfectly fine. However, if you are still concerned, there are charities in many place that supply suitable clothing for job interviews to the homeless

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Kevin

Mar 7, 2020 03:51

Are you asking a specific person to do the code review? Or does it go into a queue of some sort where any of several different people can "pick it up" to review it?

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Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 17:26

I get where you are coming from, but I think you are downplaying the risk. If your system gets hacked, they are going to do more than sign Mildred up for Canasta, they are going to have usernames and passwords that a good portion of your vulnerable elderly residents probably use on their banking site

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 17:10

Believe it or not, I actually understand your argument. However, you seem to feel that everyone should just accept your position as Gospel truth and that asking you for data to support your argument is somehow a strawman argument

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 16:57

What part of your position do you think I'm not understanding or ignoring?

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 16:49

Well said. Your debating skills are quite impressive

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 16:46

So, let me get this straight. You are advocating ignoring ignoring a pretty widely accepted industry standard best practice with no data to support your position AND you don't know what a strawman argument is but I am the one that needs to go back to high school to learn how to debate?

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 16:39

"Third time reminding you to review the thread. This was covered."
Um, first, you're not my high school teacher. Second, exactly where in the discussion did you post your data?

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 16:29

@Harper-ReinstateMonica I'd love to see the data supporting your claim that there is a non-insignificant number of people who find clicking a password reset link so difficult that it justifies putting ALL of your users at risk by having passwords stored in plain-text

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 16:29

@Harper-ReinstateMonica "Which has a perhaps unintended implication that "the disadvantaged don't deserve access because they are too stupid". I don't see how suggesting and alternative solution to giving them access leads you to infer that I think they don't deserve access, but that was certainly not my implication.

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 16:29

@Harper-ReinstateMonica There are lots of options. Send them a password reset link, let them log in with security questions and reset their password, set a temporary password for them and have them change it after logging in, etc

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 16:29

@Harper-ReinstateMonica None of those situations have anything to do with storing the password in plain-text

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 16:29

@emory I did not mean that mine was the only reason, just one reason. Yours is another very good reason not to store passwords in plain-text. However, based on Harper-ReinstateMonica's previous comments, I'm guessing they would say they don't care about that for a low importance site that doesn't need "Fort Knox security"

Kevin

Mar 3, 2020 16:29

@Harper-ReinstateMonica No. Just no. No site should be storing password in plain text. Period. There is absolutely no reason to and plenty of reasons not to. If a dumb user forgets their password, send them a reset link, not their old password. What's going to happen when your site gets hacked and the email address/user and passwords stored are tried on other sites? Dumb users that forget their passwords also use the same username/password combos on multiple sites

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Kevin

Feb 19, 2020 18:54

@GabrielC. It depends on location. However, in most states in the US, you are wrong. I would guess that most employers would allow you to take unpaid time off. But why would you want to? That is exactly what PTO is for

Kevin

Feb 19, 2020 18:54

Downvoted because this is a ridiculous question. You are sick and you have sick days. Use them.

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Kevin

Apr 12, 2019 09:03

Unlike many people, I really like spiders and rarely kill them, but the claim that spiders can't hurt you is ludicrous. I have a friend who had to get a large portion of her wrist cut out due to a brown recluse bite.

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Kevin

Mar 14, 2019 12:49

+1 for almost word for word what I was thinking when I read the question